DE: Duct tape and bubblegum?

[bjornwilde]

Quoth herr_bookman :
Your pup is stranded on an tropical island with nothing but a pipe cleaner. How do they get back?

This one should be interesting, though I know not a few of our pups have lots of tricks up their sleeves.

Comments

[a1enzo]

No such thing in cyberspace. Should he be stranded in Userspace, or the nearest cyberspatial equivalent?

[bjornwilde]

Let's go with cyberspatial equivalent.

[a1enzo]

That would be either an offline system, or a Game taking place on a tropical island. In either case, being stranded suggests a Game-hopping scenario. If "nothing but a pipe cleaner" means he is missing the ping emitter that all Guardians are equipped with nowadays for just such an occasion so the Collective can track them down, then he'll have to take Matrix's course and proceed from system to system via the Games until he finds one with a Net connection.

Since this is the equivalent of a tropical island, before he leaves the system in question, he'll probably help repair its cooling system.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Um... fly? I suppose the pipe cleaner might provide some entertainment. He could probably shape it into a stick figure or something.

[kd7sov]

Felix would first try sending his Djinn out to get a message out to his friend who has a ship. Failing that, he'd use his powers to try to dig a tunnel to the mainland.

Kain... would, I think, first jump really high straight up to see what he could see. If there's no land in sight... I have no idea.

Fluttershy's got wings, don't she? If the pipe cleaner is long enough she'll try to make a coconut harness out of it so she can have food for the trip.

[a1enzo]

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen pegasus?

[thebesteverseen]

Or a laden one, if she's got a coconut harness!

[a1enzo]

Someday, somehow, I am going to get the voice actresses to record the following:

Twilight Sparkle: Well, girls, there it is! Canterlot!
the rest of the Mane Six in no particular order: Canterlot!
Spike: It's only a model.

[no_vampires_plz]

...dammit, now I wanna make a PMV of "Knights of the Round Table."

[a1enzo]

Doooo iiiit.

[no_vampires_plz]

Turns out there are several already! I am unsurprised.

[no_vampires_plz]

Depends on the pegasus.

[no_vampires_plz]

Or she could always call upon the Sea Ponies, since she's in distress.

[kd7sov]

True! And it's actually a valid place for them, unlike the Canterlot caves.

[bjornwilde]

Andrea and Hank would look at the pipe cleaner and then likely pocket it and go about making useful tools, assuming there are plants and other building materials.

Jess wraps it around her wrist for possible future us and uses her powers to establish if there are any ships nearby or if she'll need to build her own boat.

Val ignores the pipecleaner and just makes a force field boat to sail away. As soon as she sees land or another ship, she'll teleport to it.

Not official pup voice: Mulan says she will use the strange thing to tie her hair back so she can get down to business.

[just_a_cup]

Oh, oh, oh. Are you considering Mulan?

[bjornwilde]

She's been an on and off voice but she is being loud again. I'm still under a crunch at work so I'm not apping anyone until the Big Project is done but with Belle in Bar and that recent episode, I may have to revisit. I think I had dropped the idea as the awkward Curse-Time with Emma and Snow in Bar but such can be figured out!

Her journal is woman_of_valor for future reference. =]

[the_fairest]

EEEEEE! POSSIBLE MORE ONCE PEOPLE. THERE'S A PARTY GOING ON IN MY HEART.


You can bring her in even with that whole Storybrooke Characters timeline going on. There's just a sort of tacit agreement the Storybrooke and Once Upon a Time people don't bump into each other, or get spoilered by Milliways at large. Belle, Nova and Red were all coming in from Once Upon a Time backstory. [Timelines & Placement Comment Shout Outs Here at the Comm!]

As well as Charming, Red, and Snow have all come in from completely different points of time in their backstory, too. It really is a whole lot of hand wavy and fun, with so very few rules in our corner. I'd be glad to chat you up on it if you wanted.

[bjornwilde]

Very handy that timeline! The more I think about it the more I realize my reservations are straw men. At first I was confused by the Curse and it's effect for those left within the Enchanted Forest but now I understand time was frozen there. I can also easily bring Mulan in from when she met Belle but before she meets Emma and Snow, i.e. while she is journeying with Philip and before the Curse hits.

I feel like I'll need to comment with her journal to have proper facial expression if we talk about this much more. ;p

[bjornwilde]

I might have put her up in Panfandomsandbox if you are interested. =]

Not sure how long I'll be on tonight but I should be around tomorrow, daytime.

[baptizemyself]

Great, now I have Let's Get Down To Business from the Disney film stuck in my head XD

[woman_of_valor]

My work here is done.

[baptizemyself]

:D

(I totally ship Mulan/Aurora in OUaT. Sentences I never thought say.)

[woman_of_valor]

Me too to be honest. My head voice says Mulan loves Philip as a sword brother and nothing more. I hope canon doesn't crush this. ;)

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut would pocket the fake fuzzy caterpillar after failing to eat it and then teleport out of there. Just a plain teleport; there is no one around to impress with a Tornado Teleport. Besides, that tornado might turn into a waterspout once it hits the water! Eugh!

Amusingly Evil Chicken would do exactly the same. Fuzzy caterpillars are awesome.
Well... no, fake fuzzy caterpillars are more of an annoyance to him/her, so the pipe cleaner gets left behind.

Fixit, if I ever app her, would have the hardest time getting off of the island. She might in time calculate her approximate position in the multiverse and jerry rig a fairy ring out of the island's native fungus
to get herself to a known location in a known universe, therefore reducing the problem to one that was previously solved, or she might take it as a sign that it is time to retire and rule over a desert island with a tiny iron fist.

She'll miss all the stolen cable she gets at home, though.

[ceitfianna]

Will would make various tools and the pipe cleaner would be saved to give to some child.

Charles would project his mind out until it encounters someone on a plane, a boat or who can fly to come save him.

Sameth would also rely on his outside skills to survive and create something involving the Charter for a really useful call for help.

Moist would grumble and inwardly panic as he waited to be rescued.

William would prepare a big bonfire as he waits.

Demeter would cheat and slip through the ground to other ground, being a goddess is useful.

Tumnus would panic and then try and figure out a way to get rescued.

The Pirate King would hijack the next ship that came by.

And I forgot Jane who wouldn't do well.

[thebesteverseen]

Steve is uninterestingly, unimpressed that this is actually a question people can't solve easily. Especially if there are trees and vines and animals and stars above you. You use the more than plentiful resources around you and get yourself off the island. Or you stay, build and survive until help comes. Simple as that.

What? Was this supposed to be a challenge? Please get back to him when there's a real problem worth solving, that he hasn't had to do while fighting his way through a place already.

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Well, after she finishes having her screaming agoraphobic fits from finding herself in the most wide-open space she's ever seen except for SPACE ITSELF, Ellen would probably start frantically looking for some kind of cave to hole up in until she could calm down. The last time she woke up in her underwear (I am assuming 'nothing but' still allows basic clothing) somewhere weird with no good reason, it gave her scars only her doctor's ever seen and nightmares she still has from time to time. She'd need to get underground to get her head back in order.

Anyway, after the cave she'd find a good sized sharp rock or heavy stick to kill some of the local animals with so she'd have something to eat while she figured out what happened next. Because seriously, while she can handle survival in a scrub or rocky desert scenario, this is not a situation for which she is prepared and she'd honestly have no bloody clue what to do next.

[herr_bookman]

Yay, our pups can flail together!

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Ellen is perfectly capable of dealing with quite a lot of horrible and difficult situations, some of which would probably be problematic even for some of the survival and bad-situation experts here. This, however, is not one of those situations.

[herr_bookman]

Autor would probably freeze to death or poison himself or drown on a crappy raft.

First, though he'd look for some clothes, as pipe cleaners can be a bit drafty.

[seat_five_girl]

Clearly, a truly luminous blush will signal rescue craft of some sort.

Or something.

[sunbaked_baker]

From miles and miles away.

[herr_bookman]

*snorts tea*

[varadia]

Diana would fly out.

Galadan would travel back to Fionavar and thus out.

Michael would either fly away or head over to the other place she currently is.

Nynaeve would make a gateway and Travel home, using her Well if she was somewhere without any saidar.

Raven would make a usable house out of a coconut, one guaranteed to be just a little bit too small for anyone else, and that would only get smaller and less-fitting the more annoyed surrounding people got. Its dimensions would also change in the night. Then he'd leave it for the next poor sap and fly away.

Dean would try his cell phone, try his cell phone again, swear at it, throw it into the sand, pick it back up, get progressively more annoyed, then give up and tell Cas (or Anna) that he was sorry. Then he'd get a ride back to civilization.

Sam Tyler would stay out of the sun and wait to wake up.

X would check her location as best she could, try her communicator and check for telepathic searches, then keep an eye out for a few days for any boats or planes. Then she'd start swimming.

[nocarename]

Ako: Missing her Sylladex? It doesn't go well. I have pups that can Robinson Crusoe their way up the tech tree from a standing start, but Ako is not one of them. She probably dies of insect bites or eating the wrong thing.
With her sylladex things go much more smoothly and potentially include T-Minus posts attempting to crowdsource guides on how to survive.

Tyler: There's a lot of things that involve writing SOS on the sand in rocks and signal fires and things that I assume happened in Castaway, which I have never seen.

Artemis: First, a crappy bow and arrow set. After that work begins on a raft, better arrows and bows and so on. Part way through she is attacked by supervillains and steals their plane.

Robo: Freaks about insects and builds anti-ant defenses. This will involve fire. Then begins building a raft to take him to civilization, or failing that a larger piece of land.

Janet: ...Flies away? Seriously if she can see land the odds are good she'll try it that way. And even if she can't she might give it a go anyway, plot depending.

[1nv1nc1ble]

Artemis: First, a crappy bow and arrow set. After that work begins on a raft, better arrows and bows and so on. Part way through she is attacked by supervillains and steals their plane.

Excuse me, Ms. Crock, but Mr. Queen would like his origin back.

[thenewblack]

All complaints should be directed to who ever stranded an archer, who wasn't Ollie, on a deserted island. Really, there's only so many ways to deal with the situation.

[haole_cop]

Danny already considers himself stranded on a tropical island.







Assuming he is stranded on a different island, and presuming that Steve is nowhere in sight, he would find his way to the beach, write "HERE I AM NUMBSKULL" in giant letters in the sand with rocks, and amuse himself by making shapes out of the pipe cleaner cleaner until Steve shows up to get him, at which point he would state that the pipe cleaner is totally useless, worse even than a tie, since he couldn't strangle himself with it rather than being forced to live out the rest of his days in the sort of place most people would kill to be stranded.

The Karkat Vantas 6 point plan for basically any crisis.

[crabbycustomer]

1) Figure out who to blame. If possible, punish them.

2) Punch local lifeforms in the snout to assert superiority.

3) Proceed to waste six hours and twelve minutes on some kind of foolishness.

4) At this point, the island will probably explode and the ensuing tidal wave will wash him up somewhere else disastrous.

5) In the commotion, the pipe cleaner will die. Kiss it to be sure. Mourn.

6) Hate yourself.

[damncompass]

Joshua would use the pipe cleaner as a bit of metal, then scrounge the island for a bit of wood, and fashion himself a compass and teleport off the damn island. (Hey, twelve years in shiny gold nonsense really makes you intimately acquainted with what the damn thing looks like.)

It... might not work, but hey. He'd try.

[chanter1944]

Sariel is stranded on a tropical island?

"Mama, are the transporter and the shuttles all down for maintenance, or was this something unscheduled? Rager to Enterprise, my shoreleave may be extended past its expected end, unless ship's systems are working."

Hee heeeee! Couldn't resist.

[mighty_avenger]

Fly.

[hey35andholding]

Clementine: Fashion it into a hairtie, call the boys to bail her out.

Dixie: Try to fashion into an orb-contacting device?

Jules: POWER SWIM HER WAY TO SANTA-BARBARA, BABY!

Pinkie Pie: Bend it into a working radio, of course. PONYSCIENCE!